Proverbs

2:1		My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
2:2		So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
2:3		Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
2:4		If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
2:5		Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
2:6		For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
2:7		He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
2:8		He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
2:9		Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
2:10		When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
2:11		Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
2:12		To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;
2:13		Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
2:14		Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
2:15		Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
2:16		To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
2:17		Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
2:18		For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
2:19		None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
2:20		That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
2:21		For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
2:22		But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.